Let get real...we're making up configurations and drawing conclusions that will perhaps not even be considered. Without being part of the public safety team in this fellas community all these what-ifs are senseless. Each community and its emergency management will decide what works best for them...the fella asked for some technical advice. Lets keep the tread on the technical advice and not try to pretend we can offer more than that without details about the entire system design, architecture and implementation plans...
In this guys town a public safety agency might be a part-time assignment for a volunteer fireman. Remember there is 50% of this nations population that doesn't live in the 200 largest cities ;-) Telework is very important to the future of our good old USA...we better figure out how to do it and soon! ----- Original Message ----- From: Eric Lemmon To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 9:34 PM Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] dispatch centers run through the internet Jed, Whether or not it CAN be done is not an issue. The issue is whether it SHOULD be done. The notion of a public safety agency operating an alerting system that is based at someone's home, using privately-contracted phone lines, is really frightening! What if the dispatcher is "indisposed" when an emergency call comes in? What if the......
